>> oh, my god! >> reporter: relieved neighbors still trying to figure out why one of their own would stalk people walking the streets of petworth, attack them from behind and hit them in the head with a clawhammer. >> oh, they caught him? >> reporter: they caught him. >> okay, that's good. that's good. >> reporter: police had blanketed the area after the attacker killed a retired nurse from denver named gary dedriches and allegedly assaulted two other people within 26 hours. undercover officers stationed on gallatin street heard a woman cry out in pain and ran toward her. >> they observed a female on the ground that was suffering from obvious injuries to her head. >> reporter: down the alley a pair of eyes. >> the officers made eye contact with the subject. he began running through the alley and was pursued by the officers. >> reporter: they chased him for 4 blocks and they say he tossed aside a black backpack, inside a bloody clawhammer. >> from the bag that was discarded by the suspect in this case was a clawhammer that

is believed to be the weapon involved in this assault. >> reporter: suspect michael davis is the brother of two pro football players, vernon i davis of the vernon davis of the 49ers and vontae davis of the miami dolphins. the mayor says that the attacks are the word of a madman, that davis is mentally ill. in the community neighbors remember a kind gentle soul. >> after he retired as a nurse he spent a significant amount of time still caring for his neighbors and folks that didn't live just right in his own neighborhood. i think it's a tragedy. >> reporter: and in petworth neighbors are relieved the man who killed him may finally be off the street. >> it's a good thing. >> reporter: chief cathy lanier says investigators are still trying to put together all the evidence to charge michael davis and conclusively link him to those other crimes, but she also says she is a whole lot more confident now that he is off the streets.

>> she is not the only one, bruce leshan. our surae chi davis home in the petworth neighborhood and has reaction to this arrest. got to be stunned there. >> reporter: they are, lesli. people here in this neighborhood are in disbelief. the nfl stars and their younger brother group at the home just off my shoulder here. you can see it right there off of emerson avenue street and georgia avenue northwest. the davis family is the pride of this neighborhood with two of the suspects brother in the nfl, vernon davis, star athlete and tight end of the 49ers, another brother plays cornerback for the miami dolphins. they're used to making sports highlights, but now their younger brother is making headlines of a different kind. metropolitan police served a search warrant this morning and spent several hours at the home and around the neighborhood because the latest attack that happened last night and where mike davis was caught are only a couple blocks apart from

here. myra young grew up with the davis brothers. >> we all played together. we all ran up these streets up and down together. >> those are good kids over there, good kids raised by a good grandmother. i can't make anything of it because i don't believe it. >> reporter: well, this morning 49ers tight end vernon davis tweeted out just got a disturbing call from back home in washington d.c. a good day gone bad. hopefully he wasn't involved. it is our understanding that vernon davis is en route to d.c. and people who know them say this is their family home base. this is where they grew up. so if there is any meeting with the family, any gathering, they will be meeting right here on emerson street northwest. back to you. >> certainly not the kind of meeting they'd hoped to have for sure. thank you. well, why would anyone want to hurt horses being used to help kids with special needs? that is the question fairfax county police are trying to answer after three horses were

stabbed at the frying pan farm park equestrian facility in herndon. here's kristin fisher. >> look at her. >> reporter: davorca suvak runs the spirit equestrian program. it's for people with special needs and requires a special kind of horse. >> they're patient and tolerant and social. they don't have that natural instinct to run away from the stranger. >> reporter: two nights ago someone came here to spirit field and stabbed three of the horses. >> it's a nightmare. it's something beyond possible, beyond real world. i survived war in croatia and it's the kind of similar. you cannot accept it. it's hard to say okay, that's life. it's not a life. it shouldn't be. you can see that whoever did it did it several times trying to find out the best way to hurt the animal. >> reporter: now whoever did

this didn't just hurt these three horses, but they also hurt all of the children, the special needs children that ride these horses every day. >> they're waiting for the moment to come back here weekly and sit on their back and be big and be strong. i hope that she's going to be ready to serve her kids again as soon as possible. >> reporter: fairfax county police are working the case, but so far they have few, if any, leads. >> what is really horrible that that kind of person, human being, or i don't know how to call that, creature is somewhere here around us. >> reporter: in herndon kristin fisher, 9 news now. >> creature, that's a good word. all three horses are expected to make a full recovery, but fairfax county police still need your help to solve this case. so if you know anything, please call the crime solvers, 1-866- 411-tips. the defense began presenting its case in the child sex abuse child of falls church community activist and businessman michael gardner. gardner is accused of molesting

three young girls sleeping over at his home last summer. today gardner's wife falls church city council member robyn gardner took the witness stand in his defense. peggy fox has been covering this very tough case from the start. she joins us live with the latest. peg, what did she say? >> reporter: well, first we learned something new, that the falls church city police department did not conduct a search on the gardners' home until three weeks after the child sex abuse allegations were made. now the defense is trying to raise all kinds of doubt that the rooms where these alleged incidents happened were just too small, too crowded and too dark for the children to make out faces, but the defense has to know when they put a witness on the stand, sometimes it can backfire. michael gardner's wife falls church city councilwoman robyn gardner was on the stand for the defense, but may have helped the prosecution under corrosion.

the prosecutor asked isn't it true that while you were speaking to sergeant lancaster that your husband came out and told you to stop speaking to him? the defense objected to the question. the judge allowed it and robyn gardner said she didn't remember. defense attorney peter greenspun has been trying to establish that it was just too dark in the basement of the gardner home the night of the slumber party for any of the girls to have seen mr. gardner. two girls at the slumber party say gardner came down in the middle of the night and touched their genitals. robyn gardner said on the stand she got up around 1 a.m. to check on the girls and found them asleep. she said it was pitch black downstairs. i came back upstairs and mike was asleep and i got into bed. greenspun is also trying to incriminate the falls church police department's investigation and evidence gathering. he asked lead detective sonya richardson why they didn't get a search warrant for the gardners' home until three weeks after the friday night slumber party. why didn't you get a search warrant on sunday?

detective richardson, because of the nature of the case, high profile, could possibly be a conflict of interest. i was asked to hold up. strong dna evidence pointing to gardner was found on the alleged victims' pa jam pants and underpants but an important -- pajama pants and underpants but an important item was not sent to be tested, the sleeping bag. why greenspun asked? if i had my way, i would have sent anything. he also asked her did you do anything to determine the level of darkness in the room? i did not she said. on monday we expect the defense to continue. we expect to see the gardners' two children, twins, a boy and girl who are 10, take the stand. the jury could get this case monday, tuesday or possibly wednesday if it goes that long. i'm peggy fox. back to you. the man charged in the shooting death of trayvon martin will remain free on bond. prosecutors had asked that george zimmerman's bond be increased from $100,000 to --

from $150,000. now the request came after they learned that zimmerman received at least that much money in donations, but in deny being the "judge said he did not want -- denying the request the judge said he did not want to make a snap decision. a waldorf man is accused of throwing a couch at a man. gregory lea was arguing with a woman wednesday night, punched the woman and threw a couch on top of her. the woman suffered minor injuries, no word what sparked the argument. with the second pick in the 2012 nfl draft the washington redskins select robert griffin, iii. >> it is day one of the rg3 era here in washington d.c. and the man the redskins drafted to be their new franchise qb is due to arrive at redskins park today. dave owens is on rg3 watch and joins us now live from ashburn.

any sightings yet, dave? >> reporter: derek, good news for you, redskin fan and the millions of fans out there, rg3 is in the building. how about that? about an hour and a half ago his caravan carrying mom, jacqueline, dad, robert, and rg3 and his fiancee coming right through this driveway into redskins park. you might be asking why i'm standing outside. the redskins don't want the media inside. they don't want it to be a media circus today. i think it's a little too late for that, don't you think? if you know the business of football, i'm sure he's been inside. they've done some meet and greets. they've given him a playbook and said get to work. it's been a whirlwind, radio city music hall last night. you were there. he touched down at dulles airport 3:30 and then again just went through the gates about an hour and a half ago. he'll meet the press tomorrow at fedex field. we will be there. at 5:50 rg3 the man with the it factor and we'll explain that.

for now right outside of redskins park, derek, back to you in the studio. >> he does indeed have the it factor, dave. thanks so much. the youth vote is at the center of an election year clash between republicans and the white house. millions of students could graduate in more debt if congress allows the interest rate on federal student loans to double on july 1st. today house republicans pushed through a bill that eliminates a preventive care fund be in president obama's healthcare law to pay for that rate cut extension. the white house promises to vie toe the gop bill and the house -- devoe the gop bill and the house speaker -- to veto the gop bill and the house speaker accused democrats. >> it's an election year, but my god, do we have to fight about everything? >> it is unconscionable the republican leadership is forcing us to choose between education and healthcare. >> senate democrats will bring their version for the bill up for debate in may.

it pails for the rate cut extension with a tax hike on businesses, an approach republicans oppose. tomorrow is a really big day at the university of maryland. wusa9 is the proud sponsor of maryland day 2012. >> yeah. takes place from 10:00 to 4:00 on the college park campus and our mike hydek is pulling a very long day here to give us a preview. hi, mike. >> reporter: hey, guys, we are less than 24 hours from the biggest event at the university of maryland, maryland day, 460 plus events you can see, taste, hear, smell, even bounce. you believe they've been doing this more than a decade. joining me now is dave itellini, the spokesperson and guess who else we have. why do we have 100,000, officially a full city, of people coming here tomorrow? >> once again we open our doors to the entire community. we want to show off all the great things the university of

maryland is doing as a top 10 university. >> reporter: so we're going to have food, music, scientists. this isn't just lectures and demonstrations. >> absolutely. they're all family friendly. we want people to come out and enjoy all of these free events. >> reporter: not just family friendly, free. bouncy house for the little ones, a wind tunnel on campus and over the in, hour we're going to show you some of the really cool stuff. >> absolutely great things and we went together. we know all the great things that are around. >> reporter: we got a chance to have a lot of fun and guess who is going to be with us as well and as they say in tv, back to you guys. >> looks like you're having fun already. >> first running live shot ever. still ahead the restaurant report that will have you perhaps thinking twice before you eat at some of washington's most popular places. >> hard to believe, pretty nice now but we have frost advisories and freeze warnings tonight and we'll update the forecast for maryland day.

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>> when this ship was first built, it was named constitution. star trek fans can be very persuasive. there were a lot of letters to president gerald ford at the time and the president logically decided that the ship could be named after the spaceship enterprise and that's how this enterprise came to be named. >> the enterprise will be kept at kennedy air force before it is moved to manhattan's intrepid sea, air and space museum this summer. it spent the last eight years at the udvar hazy center near dulles airport. maryland day takes place tomorrow on the university of maryland's college park campus and there is actual something for everyone. >> yeah. mike hydek shows us just two activities for the outdoor person in your family. >> reporter: on maryland day you can choose from more than 430 exhibits and it's not just watching demonstrations. yeah. if you like to do more physical

things for maryland day, they have a climbing wall that can help you do it. it's about 5 stories tall. this is 5 1/2 stories tall, so this is no joke. so if you want to get some exercise while you're having fun, you can. how can people actually get involved? >> well on, maryland day we have our whole climbing complex out here open. we'll have our climbing wall, our alpine tower and high ropes course and have 20 different routes pool can try and see our facilities and -- people can try and see our facilities and give it a go. >> reporter: if that's a little too much exercise, head to the beautiful pool right next to the climbing wall. surf boards, kayaks and more, plenty of things to do to get hands on entertainment and a workout at maryland day. >> and that 14th annual maryland day takes place tomorrow at university of maryland on the college park campus 10 a.m.

to 4 p.m. there will be more than 430 events and displays and we will have a booth in a place called night hall. we will merely have to find it because a lot of us will be there to hang out and talk and have a good time, do a little weathercasting, right, top? >> what's the forecast going to be? >> the broadcast will be at the glacialism building which is actually combining print now and journalism. the forecast, chilly, but the rain will hold off till afternoon. so you'll be able to do stuff in the morning. >> if you can stand the cold. >> exactly. speaking of cold, we have frost advisories out tonight. here's a love look outside, our live weather cam brought to you by michael and son. suchs, 64 the high today, dew point troubling in the 20s. these winds will die down. that means temps will fall like a rock after midnight, winds west, northwest at 16 and pressure rising at 30.06 inches

of mercury. temperatures, low 60s pretty. everywhere, although already in the 50s in gaithersburg, 59 leesburg, but for the most part 60 in bethesda, 61 arlington and freight falls. off to the east 60 -- great falls. off to the east 62 college park and in laurel and down towards andrews. frost possible north and west, winds diminishing tonight. bring the plants inside. even if you're in the beltway, it won't frost, but it will stress the plants out. chilly for maryland day but should be dry tomorrow morning and nothing like last week's nor'easter. this is not a huge system coming. tonight clear, breezy early, high clouds by dawn and cold, 32 to 44. winds becoming northerly at 5 to 10 after midnight. they will die down. lows tonight, looking at temps in the 30s out towards gaithersburg and rockville, 41 arlington and downtown, 37 college park, 36 bowie and reston and fairfax and 35

towards sterling and a whole bunch of numbers towards manassas. here we go. a frost advisory for montgomery county and loudoun county and northern fauquier county and back into just north of culpeper. north and west of that you've got freeze warnings for frederick county maryland, frederick county virginia and point back into the panhandle of west virginia. it's about on schedule in terms of the average last frost in the metro area which is why we say wait till mother's day to put stuff in the ground. downtown the average last frost is the 23rd, but in fredericksburg it's the 28th. in gaithersburg it's the 30th and in hagerstown it's early may. that's why we say wait a couple more weeks. increasing cloudiness in the morning, cold, light rain possible west. we'll be dry in the immediate metro area, 30s and 40s. by afternoon mostly cloudy, chilly, light rain, temperatures between 56 and 60. so grab a jacket. you'll need it all day. next seven days, we'll salvage a decent sunday, hope to see you out at middleburg point to

point, maybe a passing shower, temps around 60 and then upper 60s monday, mid-70s tuesday, shower or thunderstorm possible and yeah, low 80s with a few storms, not a big deal, wednesday, thursday and friday. >> need more sun next week. >> exactly and warmer temps. >> because it's going to be may. >> you are correct, sir. >> so come on. let's be real. up next the scandal involving interns and the guy from girls gone wild, but it is not what you think it will be. >> up next a new device that is keeping patients' hearts pumping while they wait for a transplant, those stories and more coming up.

a new device may soon provide hope for thousands of people with heart failure who are waiting for transplants. an fda panel voted this week to approve the hardware mechanism. the device is implanted in the left ventricle of the heart. it sucks blood into the aorta and replaces the heart's pumping function. there were some safety concerns, but the fda panel says the benefits outweigh the risks for the most critical

patients. washington has another intern scandal sort of. the creator of the girls gone wild series videos says he was the top bidder for an auction of an internship in the senator's office mark dyer. a member of an l.a. temple acknowledges he offered the internship as part of a fundraiser without the none of senator pryor. francis received his money back from the temple but wants more than that. >> i think the senator should apologize to me and that's all i want. i'm just not going to be called a liar and that this was a hoax and i'm not going have my reputation harnessished and be embarrassed by this guy. >> you're not embarrassed by those videos? the man who offered the internship sent a letter of apology to pryor. the letter has been sent to the fbi to figure out if any laws were broken. he said he was going to throw away his powerball, good thing he checked it first. you'll meet d.c.'s newest

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only on 9 tonight watch this woman's hands before she touches your food. 9 wants you to know about surveillance footage and inspections that expose some potential food dangers. we found some serious problems at some of d.c.'s best known

and highest traffic eateries. smithsonian, union station, old post office, yup, it all started when investigative reporters started filing open records request across the metro for our special series on restaurants closed down for food problems and we found out these places are really only inspected a couple times at year? >> on average at most, some just once a year which made us wonder what would happen if we took our cameras to these places and observed ourselves and then went through two or three of their most recent reports meaning we'd have to go back over a year in several spots in washington's most famous land mark eateries, for example, the smithsonian's air and space museum, thousand seat mcdonald's looking for violations that can make you sick. look at this inside the air and space museum's main mcdonald's and this at that kiosk. >> right here she's touching the window sill.

>> reporter: chris waldorf is with the consumer association of america. in january, 2011 the d.c. health department temporarily shut down the air and space museum's mcdonald's citing eight critical and an additional 18 noncritical violations including rodent droppings, not wearing hair restraints, no hot water at the staff toilet and a worker wiping her nose that had improperly washed her hands. >> not good enough. >> we're not eating there. >> reporter: a spokeswoman declined an interview but wrote these are really old inspection reports. since then all health inspections have been fine. however, in may, 2011 inspectors cited mcdonald's again with 28 violations and just this past march inspectors identified two violations including a roach in the kitchen. >> there's a possibility for cross contamination there. >> reporter: that's the same month our cameras recorded this worker handling food after

touching that ledge which this worker had just touched after putting his hand on or near his face twice. she also reached down into a bucket of rags, then moved her hands off camera for six seconds beforehand ling the food again. >> you need to step in and first of all, throw that food away. >> reporter: mcdonald's issued this e-mail saying we take these matters extremely seriously. we've taken action to correct the issues reinforcing our stringent standards to ensure the continued operation of safe clean restaurants. across the mall at the museum of natural history inspectors shut down the atrium cafe for several hours in july, 2011. a refrigerator was left uncleaned, improper temperatures of potentially hazardous food, food eaten by rodents, rodent droppings and a strong urine odor. >> that is a real risk for foodborne illnesses. >> reporter: so we took our cameras there, too. >> this gentleman here is preparing food with his hands

and just rests them on the counter there. >> reporter: that's the same counter where diners put their hands and breathe and speak over while making orders. >> any germs or bacteria on the counter could transfer to his gloves. >> reporter: the district's food code requires cleaning hands immediately before engaging in food preparation to prevent cross-contamination when changing tasks. he says our video documented health code violations at the smithsonian kiosk, too. >> she's putting on gloves, but clearly hasn't washed her hands before that. >> reporter: since 2011 inside union station officials temporarily closed segura japan citing food cooked at improper temperatures. at the post office pavilion bagel express was closed upon finding roaches, mice and very unclean conditions. the pavilion's license was suspended for what was described as a mixup.

health inspections were required and all passed. we're not just looking for dirty restaurants. we're looking for dirty politicians and government waste. we're asking folks to tip us, 9 wants to know. www.wusa9.com or follow mow twitter. >> let's not get past those dirty restaurants yet, folks not washing their hands is a big danger and you found a lot of that. >> a lot of these inspections are snapshots in time where the inspector stepped in and now they say they've cleaned up. washington's newest millionaire came forward today. william lindsay bought the winning powerball ticket at the congressional exxon on massachusetts avenue northeast. he said he almost tossed it but now is very happy he did not. >> i said let me check this ticket. i looked at the ticket and i saw it and i'm like wow. i checked the computer again. i'm like wow. so that's when i said well, next thing to do is take my blood pressure medicine and sit

down. >> he can afford to buy the top of the line blood pressure medicine, too. william lindsay is a retired marine who lives in woodbridge. he plans to buy a new luxury car for himself and a nice used car for his daughter. everyone is a winner at tomorrow's maryland day in college park. there will be more than 430 games, events and displays for the whole family and mike hydek joins us now from the university of maryland with a look at one of the feature performers. you didn't have to run to find him. >> reporter: no. i could actually stand still for this one. these guys are absolutely fantastic. among the 460 now things you can do, the events you can experience, food, science, lots of fun, among them live performances, zach norman is from the generics. you guys didn't just start this band. it's been at university of maryland for a little bit. >> yes, sir. >> reporter: you said performance competitions aren't necessarily your thing. >> we don't real get into that.

what we really like to do is jam out. >> reporter: if you could tell me tomorrow -- if you come here tomorrow, you'll get a chance to hear them. zach, take it way and give us a little example. ♪ singing ] so watch your step kids do you need a miracle. ♪ gave a job made me wonder why i'm even here. ♪ double vision i'm seeing in spite clear i share the ground that i'm working on. ♪ the car outside and you got nobody to love. ♪ i understand what i mean when i say -- prepare pretty good. guys, back to you. >> i give them a 10. they're really good. >> nice job, acappella, doing it. that's great. >> next stop american idol. >> we'll see. coming up we'll head back out live to redskins park where

washington is preparing to introduce new quarterback rg3 to all the fans. >> but up next one of jazz great's louie armstrong's final performances released to the public for the very first time. >> don't forget we are always on www.wusa9.com. stay with us. we'll be back.

one of louie armstrong's final trumpet performances was released to the public today for the very first time. this was recorded in january, 1971 and was presented at the place it was created, the national press club here in d.c. armstrong was in poor health at that time, so this performance was a bit of a comeback for him. the jazz great surprised the crowd with tunes like hello dolly. there were performances recorded by cbs. armstrong died just five months later. a tree steeped in symbolism could soon be sprouting up in arlington cemetery. today a nonprofit conservation organization american forrests held a tree planting ceremony to replace what's known as the lost arlington oak. the 220-year-old post oak tree once stood near the jfk gravesite. that tree fell during hurricane irene in august last year. today's ceremony coincides with

arbor day celebrations. a mother of all garden sales takes place today and tomorrow at the national arboretum. this year's sale includes more than 600 books on horticulture and garden design and you'll find a wide variety of plant vendors and those hard to find plants. the arboretum is located on new york avenue in northeast. the museum's first permanent addition since its grand opening in 2008 is now open itself. it's called hp new media gallery. this gallery offers up what the museum is calling five groundbreaking interactive experiences along with two video presentations. the goal? demonstrate the impact of new media on the world. we got a bit of a sneak peek today at a special science and engineering event taking place this weekend at the d.c. convention center. it's billed as a three family friendly expo and book fair. there are more than 3,000 hands on activities along with some live performances by scientists, explorers and even some best selling authors. among them bill nye, the

science guy. you want big events? we got big events. mike hydek is live in college park where another one will take place tomorrow. hi, mike. >> reporter: we are having great time prepping for the big event here, maryland day, over 100,000 people expected and coming up you've heard of a fire and a tornado. have you ever seen them together? we'll show you right after this.

one of the biggest days of the year at the university of maryland campus is tomorrow. less than 24 hours away and they are known for maryland day and here at the university of maryland about being a research university, they can combine weather and fire. check it out.

fire, tornado, in fact, they study them here at the university of maryland and on maryland day you can see one if you come. this is professor andre marshall. he's going to show us exactly what's involved. what are you putting in? >> heptane fuel inside this small container inside an enclosure. we're going to fill it up and ignite the liquid fuel and immediately we have a fire tornado and the way we make this tornado is by surrounding the pool fire in a special way. we have walls that only allow the air to come in in a preferential way. >> reporter: this is part of how university of maryland students study the different causes of fire and the more efficient ways to put them out which can save corporations millions in a crisis and here students are conducting a study for united technologies and the fire tornado may be an anomaly, but it is worth studying according to professor

marshall. >> these actually occur in nature you were telling me. they're rare, but they do occur in forest fires. >> yes. you can see them in fire fires and they can be 40 or 50 feet tall. there was a large fire in 1923 in tokyo, japan, where one of these fires occurred after an earthquake. >> reporter: if you'd like to see one that's 10 feet tall, maryland day right here, really cool. absolutely amazing. wait till you come out and see it. of course, they have plenty of water and they study what puts out fires. that's part of what they do for the companies here, so much to show you as we head throughout the next hour. for now reporting live on the university of maryland campus as they get ready for maryland day tomorrow. mike hydek, back to you. >> very fun stuff, like the fire tornado. >> we were talking about it as mike was discussing in the piece with dr. marshall, these are naturally occurring events. >> we had video of them once i think in the last couple years

in a forest fire out west. they're rare, but they do occur. we've been connected to maryland since 2001. our doppler radar sits on their campus. >> we are looking at an okay night if you don't mind cold. if you're going out tonight, you guys have big plans? >> yeah, we do. the 11:00 news. >> large. >> wear a coat if you're going to get dinner before 11:00. here's your live weather cam brought to you by michael and son. 64 downtown, dew point in the 20s, going to fall quickly when the sun goes down, winds west, northwest at 16 and gusted over 40 miles per hour today. they will diminish after midnight which is kind of a bad thing because that allows temperatures to really fall, 61 arlington, bethesda, rockville, a smattering of 50s, 57 gaithersburg, 59 reston and leesburg, but still 62 in college park and 62 at andrews. here's the deal. frost is possible north and west tonight. winds will diminish. bring your plants inside even if you don't expect frost.

it will stress them out. chilly for maryland day but not wet in the morning, mainly afternoon light rain and this is not a big rain event like last weekend, an entirely different system. for tonight clear, breezy early, high clouds by dawn and cold, low temps 32 to 44. winds will become northerly at 5 to 10 after midnight when they settle down. so low temperatures in the 30s in the burbs, low to mid-40s downtown, 35 gaithersburg, 36 rockville and that's good enough for frost, 37 college park, 36 bowie. out west 36 reston and fairfax. now technically fairfax is not under a frost advisory. you could have a little frost north of 66 and 34 in leesburg and also tonight in manassas. again frost advisory in montgomery county and howard county and loudoun county and northern fauquier county. north of that they turn into a freeze warning. you can find this map on our

website at www.wusa9.com in the local weather forecast. increasing clouds tomorrow morning, but i think it's going to be dry in the metro area, maybe light rain west of town way out 66 towards manassas and winchester, temps in the 30s and 40s. by afternoon mostly cloudy. it will be chilly, light rain, high temperatures 56 to about 60 and winds east, southeasterly at about 10. so let's break it down. tomorrow morning 34 to 44, dry but cold, chilly at noon, maybe a sprinkle but really the best chance for rain will be evening, 55 to about 60. you'll need a jacket and umbrella. the next three days sunday cool, a slight chance of an isolated shower and look what happens, finally milder monday with temperatures in the upper 60s. next seven days look what happens. we go into the 70s tuesday and then we go in 80s wednesday, thursday and friday of next week. a couple showers and storms are possible but not a big deal. got a call from a viewer. nascar is in richmond tomorrow

night. it might stay dry for the start of the race. it probably will not stay dry for the end of the race. hopefully it will stay dry in middleburg because i'll see you sunday afternoon doing point 2 point. it's official. rg3 has arrived in washington d.c. >> dave owens has laid eyes on him. he's at redskins park coughing the exciting arrival of the -- covering the exciting arrival of the quarterback. take it a way. >> reporter: i've laid eyes on him, not hands yet. i've been trying to wrack my brain 24 hours. of when the last time a guy came to the dmv with this much fanfare? maybe donovan mcnabb but there were questions about him as to why would philly trade him away in the division. stephen strasburg comes to mind. he's the closest with it factor. whatever it is, rg3 seems to have it. >> redskins select robert griffin, iii. >> reporter: it was the moment redskins nation had been

waiting for. rg3! rg3! >> reporter: and it lived up to expectations. >> when i heard them say robert griffin, iii has been selected by the washington redskins, it meant something to me. >> reporter: robert griffin, iii's million dollar arm, smile and socks are officially d.c.'s own. >> we are really excited. you can see what a class act is he and what type charisma he has. i just think he's going to bring a whole lot to this organization. >> reporter: before you pencil him into the starting lineup at quarterback, he's got some work to do. >> we've got a lot of belief he's going to do everything he possibly can to give us the best chance to win and for him to be as good as he's going to be. >> even if you are a franchise quarterback or top pick, you still have to start here and prove to the veterans that they can trust in you and if they don't trust you, they can't play for you and they definitely won't play with you. >> reporter: words you love to hear. >> i'm not a troublemaker, nor do i go try to find trouble, so nobody has to worry about that.

no distractions. i'll be ready to work. >> reporter: guys, this is turning out to be a monster sports week in the dmv as much as we talked about the redskins, caps. about 20 minutes ago the nats breaking some news and it involves bryce harper. we'll talk about that coming up in sports at 6:20. now we are out here at redskins park all alone. we're the only ones. back to you guys in the studio. >> that's all right. we're still charged up between the redskins and the nats and the caps. >> you might think we're becoming a sports town if we don't watch ourselves here. >> reporter: no, no way. >> we'll see you in a bit. still ahead this time of year we could start to see a lot of tornadoes. we'll look back at one of the worst to ever hit our area. >> reporter: i'm mike hydek at university of maryland where they are getting ready for maryland day, a huge event on camp tomorrow and they love science. we have more on that coming up and you know what? did you know this year marks

150 years since president lincoln signed the land grant. the 1862 measure provided support for colleges to teach mechanical art, agriculture and military tactics. the hall was built for $24,000 in 1928, the oldest academic building used on campus. crews broke ground on the newest building, what completed, the $128 million new physical sciences complex will span 158,000 square feet. we'll have more from university of maryland when we come back.

tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. you can get out there, celebrate a little bit, maryland day at university college park campus and did you know that a fire once destroyed every dorm, most of the records and half the classrooms and office spaces at the school, but this is a while back, 1912. it started on november 29th, thanksgiving day dance and it caused about $250,000 worth of damages back then. that adds up to about $5.5 million in today's money. nobody died or was hurt and only one of the only buildings not to burn was moral hall. >> our mike hydek is live in college park tonight teaching us a whole lot more about the university of maryland and giving us a preview of the big day tomorrow. hay, mike. >> reporter: i know you guys are jealous because we're

having an absolute blast on the university of maryland campus. they have phenomenal engineering and technology here and among the things they do is they build robots, lot of them. with me now is kit, this particular yellow one called torkuga4 actually is a submersible kit? >> yeah. it's a submersible submarine. you tell it to drive around, find things, fire torpedoes. >> reporter: it fires torpedoes? >> it does. unfortunately they don't look impressive out of the water, but it can certainly try it. >> reporter: you guys compete do. you have a competition coming up? >> it's robosub.org. it happens in san diego in july. >> reporter: good luck. this is really cool. we have a young lady who will make these robots do some work. your name, sweetheart? >> hung ye. they're going to work together to balance the seesaw. so when i tilt it back, the other one will move back and this one will move forward. this one has an accelerator and

the other one just maintains a certain distant from the other. >> reporter: have you always been interested in robotics? >> no. i've actually never done robotics before i came to college, but right now i work in the control dynamics club where we do a lot of robotics with multi-vehicles. >> reporter: is this the same thing where you have to give it a computer program and it can actually do what you tell it to? >> right. so this pass code that read says in the data from the accelerator which senses the change in the board angle which tells it to change the speed of the nxt so that it moves. >> reporter: very, very cool. what's this? can this move? it's on. oh! well, you will get a chance to see a lot of the engineering prowess they have at the university of maryland campus and look at all the people ready to teach you about robotic, something i have absolutely no knowledge of. live in college park we are

glad to be here. make sure you show up tomorrow 10:00 to 3:00, i believe, right? >> i think it's 10:00 to 4:00. this is 9 news now. 4 attacks 72 hours and tonight police have a suspect in custody after the most recent case in the 800 block of gal in street northwest. officers -- gallatin street northwest. officers say they caught 19- year-old michael davis red handed. >> as bruce leshan reports, the man behind bars is the brother of two nfl stars of. >> reporter: d.c. police searched the home where michael davis grew up with his brothers, nfl stars vernon and vontae davis. myra young has known all three brothers since they were children. >> those are good kids over there, good kids raised by a good grandmother. i can't make anything of it because i don't believe it. >> oh, my god! >> reporter: relieved neighbors still trying to figure out why one of their own d